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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MostlyHarmless42" data-source="post: 7937984" data-attributes="member: 6845520">I actually did run the first half of a campaign that heavily featured mass combat with the players all as military commanders set in the Dragonlance setting. The most difficult part was figuring out adequate mass combat rules that didn't: a) completely nullify player abilities, b) were simple enough that players could pick it up quick and keep combat flowing, but also not get bored, yet c) not make combat so one sided if either army was outright smaller than the other (so one could simulate 300-esque last stands without completely getting the party destroyed in an unfun way).What I found to work as to take the UA rules and tweak them at first, but after couple iterations, we sort of decided it might be better to use d6's for rolls and figure out different factors to use as examples to basically boil each turn down to as few dice rolls as possibly on either side. It worked out well enough in theory that I'd feel comfortable using them if the game had continued onward.My "never get to play game" is more of a "I'll never accomplish it in the scale I dream about in my head" sort of thing. I've a huge overarching Dragonlance story based heavily on a few of their Age of Mortals plotlines all tied together using a VERY heavily modified the Price of Courage storyline that consists of about 10 or so different "substories" each with a cast of a party of different PCs that all is interwoven intricately in my version of one ongoing campaign that spans about 10 years in the setting. Each group starts somewhere between level 2-5 (I dont use first level as a start for personal reasons in 5e) and completes a "stand alone story" that each has an appearance of one of three different NPCs that all collectively serve as sort of a "Nick Fury"-esque character that basically tries to recruit the players into an original nation-neutral Knight Order that is a creation of a friend of mines when he played the NPC in a previous iteration of the game. And eventually all 10 stories emerge into a single 10+ level game that means with a meetup of the different nations of Ansalon to deal with a worldwide threat. My dream version is either having a group or couple groups of players each play in several of the arcs and then enjoy seeing all their different characters meet each either, or the crazy idea of having literally 40 or so players all in a room together sharing the same story. No idea how the hell I'd run it if it did, but a DM can dream.I also have considered lately the logistics of running a heavily modified 5e or perhaps call of cthulhu game set in the SCP universe. I'd basically have the players make a bunch of disposable characters to be on mobile task forces that will inevitably die horribly, researchers to try to deal with containment breaches, and their main characters would be administrators reporting directly to the O5 council and delegating over stuff. I feel there is a lot of potential for a fun campaign there in the same vein as something like the film Cabin in the Hoods (if the players were the people pulling the strings), but it's still sort of in early planning stages on mechanics.</blockquote>

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